Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-12-28


little fellows with crisp five dollar bill.
Capt. Isaac Bassett, the venerable AID sill
ver-haired door keeper. was designated t.
enact the roll of Santa Claus in behalf of
the California Senator. So after the SEN
ate adjourned the boys were drawn up in
lire in front of the Republsuan cloak-room
and the distribution made in the presenc.
of number of visitors who were at thai
time in the Senate chamber The little
fellows Immediately afterward held form
al meeting, and adopted q resolution ex
tending to their generous friend merry
Christmas greeting and endorsing his re-
election to the Senate as often as he may
desire to serve in that body.
Away with the s'bloody shirt p There
is still too much effort to keep alive Sec
tional hatred in this grand country of ours.
There are men and politicians who seem to
regard it reasonable for our Southern
states to honor those who were leaders dur
ing the war, either living or dead. But our
friends of the South would not be men if
they did not esteem their old leaders. The
war is Ion since past both side s believed
they were right in that conflict the South
was convinced of its error by force of arms.
and history does not record an instance i'll
fully accepted the arbitrament of war. To
day the United States has really no North,
no South, no East, no West, so intimate in
the relationship existing between the in
dustry, commerce and agriculture of thu
various sections. Let US keep onr faces t.
the front and unitedly work together to full
fill the destiny which lies before American
citizenship. Let us be good citizens rath-
er than bad politicians. These remarks are
inspired not so much by recent political
events as by report of the exercises at the
unwilling in Richmond of statue to thu
late Gen. Lea christian hero, WHOSE
memory is treasured by all who knew him,
irrespective of sectional or party lines
Farm and Home, Springfield, Mass.
For contempt of court the mayor this
morning ordered a white man named Bob
Emanuel to be carried to jail. He resisted
ferociously, and six policemen with two citi
zens were required to execute the order
After being safely landed behind the bars
he exclaimed: swell, here l am. bu'
begorra it took six policemen aud two white
men to put me here. ''-Danyiits correspond
ent Of Richmond Dispatch:
This reminds us of circumstance that
occurred in the street in front of the build
ing on Augusta street then occupied by the
SPECTATOR Office in 1865 when the Fed
erals held possession Of the town.
A federal soldier without any provoca-
ton, and impelled thereto By liquor aud
repugnance of Face, assaulted colored
man who made no resistance. A few mi
nutes afterwards, we asked colored man
"why he did turn upon tho yankee and give
him a good thrashing which he richly de-
served, when he replied
II would sr done it, master; but I looked
around, and couldn't see M white folks-I
saw none but yankees. If dar had been any
white folks dar, would'er served him as
he desarved-l would'er guy him 'nough
to member me by as long er he lived"
SAD Loss BY FIRE.-Oo Thursday morn
ing, the 22ud inst, the large, new patent
roller Touring mill of Messrs Glenn & Wen
ger at the depot of the Baltic. & Ohio Rail
road, at Harrisonburg, upon which there
was no insurance, was burned, it is sup
posed, by an incendiary. The capacity Of
the mill was 800 barrels per day, and tt e
loss is estimated at $500 The Spirit of
The Valley says
'sThe mill cost over $50 900, and there
was 10 it about 5000 bushels of wheat and
400 barrels of flour, of which only about
30 barrels we're saved.
There was no insurance upon the build.
ing or stock.
As tie mill was not in operation, and had
not been for some four or five days, there
seems to be no way of accounting for the
fire, except upon the supposition that 1t
was the work of an incendIary."
1t is surprising that property of such
cost and value was not insured.
SAD ACCIDENTAL letter from Potomac
City to the Manassas Grzette says:
"a sad accident happened here on the ar
rival of the 6 p m. train on last Satu'd ~,
whic; may cause the death Of Miss Irene
thu daughter of Justice z. E. Hsrndon, If
Stafford county. Miss Irene was on her way
home from Washington, and missing the
fast mail, by which her friends expected
her. came on the evening train. On nsr ar
,lval at F. ,tomac she WAS lef. to ind her
way as best she could 10 the dark, snowy
night, and fell from the platform Of the Car
20 the stony ground, striking head firsr and
fracturiug her upper jaw bone, smashing
several teeth aud bruising her face aud eyes
past all recognition. She was found in an
unconscious state by Mr. Bladen. who took
her home and ministered as we'll as could
be to her relief until Monday, whcn she was
removed to her home in Stafford, where she
lies in a precarious condition, and all be-
cause conductor forgot he had a passenger
for Qaantico. 1t is a terrible blow to her
family and friends"
The following paragraphs are from the
Page Ne,Cs:-
Who wants government stronger than
the people, to rob the people of their liber-
ties? The Republicans.
Who encouraged and provided by law for
the immigration of pauper labor to be
thrown in direct competition with Amer
can labor? The Republican party while in
power.
Who is opposed to a tariff revision and in
favor of high protective tariff The Re-
publican party leaders and the money power
of the North, who have fattened on the
burdens borne by the masses.
Look at the numbers in the North who
count their wealth by the millions Vino
and what made those milliouaires? Re-
publican legislation, which legislated the
money out of the pockets or the masses into
the Golfers of the few.
Who favors tariff revision and the adjust
nent of the tariff so as to effectually pro-
tect American industry and American labor
against monopo]istic combinations The
Democrats aud the working men of the
country, who are the consumers.
THE CIaARETTE.-The unusually large
number of young men who have been COM
mitted to the State insane asylum of Mich
igan in the last year and half has led to
the discovery that almost all of them smok-
ed cigarettes to excess. In many cases it is
said to be absolutely certain that cigarette
smoking was the cause of the insanity. 1t
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